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Podcasts aren’t as smart as you think
- haspoken 4y agohttps://archive.is/Nzo6B https://archive.is/Nzo6B
- jfengel 4y agoYeah, I know. I feel kinda guilty about it. I've been forcing myself to read more books. I used to enjoy them a lot more, back when they were the only option. But the Internet has brought me more dopamine jolts with less effort. I listen mostly when my body is busy and I can't read, like when driving or running. I don't feel bad about that, though I do try to keep a kind of mental index: did I learn this fact through a medium that I could consider thoughtfully, or was it just infotainment? I make a point to run one day a week without podcasts. But I still consume a lot of podcasts. They definitely make my life better. But I want to make a point of not losing the joy I got from plain reading.